New bedside combo

Finished product first

Started out with some bubinga timber I had lying around. Used the holesaw to recess the charger.

Mitered up some 19mm formply for a nice fancy border.

Glued it, clamped it!

Used dads fancy chisels to make a recess for my arm. I did this whole thing completely on the fly, thats not me bragging, thats me saying that I just make it up as I go.

Chisel and mini-router the slot for charging cable, drilled a hole to go through to base and then underneath there's a recess for cables to run to the back while the base sits flat on the table.

Same timber as the base, cut it out with the jigsaw. The timber was very hard so my cut wasnt perpendicular, one side is actually a little thicker than the other.

Handsaw-ed through the base of my arm to accomodate the cables.

God this part was painful. The only thing I could use was a Dremel with a guide on the side, but the dremel is a POS and the chuck is no good so my bit kept coming in and out of the chuck so the depth kept changing. Luckily the LEDs will cover it up. Dremeld the 2 sides then chiseled out the guts.

Getting there!

Finished! I dont have any photos of making the curve which the headphones rest on. I just traced the curve from my headphones onto the same formply as the base, made a copy, glued them together and then glued it onto the top of my arm, which was flat. It's hard to see in this photo, but the headphone curve has a flat section where it connects to the arm, you can see it better in the first photo!

Pretty happy with it. Looking into some matt acrylic or perspex to diffuse the light.

Alongside my DIY macbook stand.